Man Forces Girlfriend to Have an Unwanted Abortion; Charged with Murder
By , Published April 7th, 2010

I came across an absolutely awful story today, courtesy of Liberty Pundits, about a man who forced his girlfriend to unknowingly have an abortion.

Sayre police on Wednesday charged Orbin Eeli Tercero, 38, with criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggra vated assault of an unborn child, aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

Tercero, of Williamson Terrace, was arrested Thursday by state police in Bath as a fugitive from justice.

He was arraigned in Bath Village Court and remanded to Steuben County Jail, pending a hearing on extradition to Pennsylvania.

The charges are based on the following events, according to police:

The victim, a 36-year-old woman from Sayre and a pharmacist at a Wegmans Market, said she had a two-year physical relationship with Tercero, also a Wegmans pharmacist.

Tercero was engaged to another woman at the time.

The victim, whose name is being withheld by this newspaper, told Tercero she was pregnant in mid-January.

Tercero told the woman he could use the drug misoprostol to induce a miscarriage. The victim told Tercero she would get an abortion instead.

The victim, however, made a Feb. 24 appointment for an abortion but changed her mind. She called Tercero to tell him she would keep the baby.

In late February, on the victim’s birthday, Tercero visited her at home and used misoprostol he allegedly stole from Wegmans pharmacy to cause the miscarriage.

Without her knowing it, Tercero put one pill in her vagina, one in her juice and one in her water. She was 13 weeks pregnant at the time.

When the victim began to miscarry, she found a partially dissolved misoprostol tablet among the discharge.

Tercero drove the victim to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, where she miscarried.

My heart just goes out to that poor woman. What a horrible, horrible thing to have to go through. Who knows what made her change her mind — viewing an ultrasound, perhaps — but something made her change her mind and her child was still cruelly taken from her.

I can’t help but think that she might have had a clue that this guy was a creep considering that all of this happened while he was engaged to another woman. So he cheats on his fiancee steadily for two years with another woman, gets her pregnant, and forces her to have an abortion. Man, what a winner. He succeeded in killing his own child. This man must literally have no conscience, no soul.

What’s interesting about this case is that he was charged with murder. This implies that the fetus is being considered to be… a person. This must have the feminazis hopping mad. Whenever cases like this come up, they always have a problem with it. Consider Laci and Connor’s Law. Feminists and pro-abortion advocates went nuts over it. They don’t want unborn children to be considered human. They’re only supposed to be considered fetuses. Feminists and the pro-abortion advocates worry that considering an unborn child a human would give unborn children a constitutional right to life — and how could abortion, therefore, be legal? It doesn’t matter to them whether or not the mother wanted the baby when the violence was enacted against them. And it won’t matter to them in this case that she wanted to keep her child. Their number one priority, now and always, is not fighting for women, but fighting to keep abortion legal and common.

And here’s a curious question for the feminists. They advocate, strongly and consistently, for women to be able to abort their babies without the consent of the father. The child is half his, after all, so why should he not have a say? But if the feminist position is that women should be allowed to abort without the father’s consent, then really, what’s so different about this case? Isn’t it the exact same thing that feminists advocate, except with the father performing the abortion? Feminists say they’re all about equality, after all, and that they don’t want women to be superior to men, just equal. So what’s the issue here? If a woman can have an abortion without the consent of the father, then why can’t the father do the same thing to her? If killing your baby is an absolute right and feminists are fighting for equality, then why should only mothers have that right? Why can’t fathers as well?

I won’t expect to get an answer from any feminists anytime soon. They’ve been quiet about this case so far (no surprise there). This is a sticky situation for them.

In the meantime, I’m glad to hear that Pennsylvania authorities are doing the right thing and charging this heartless man with murder. I hope the woman gets at least some peace knowing that the killer of her child is being brought to justice.

Just remember, if feminists had their way, he’d be getting off scot-free.

Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog. Stop by for more original commentary, or follow her on Twitter!
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  • Ninek

    I can never get enough sentences into a conversation about this subject without the 'pro-choice' person becoming shrill. They don't want to think about these instances; they don't want to know how unregulated the abortion industry is. Women have already died from these harsh and poisonous drugs. Chemicals means have only worsened the situation for unborn children.

  • Margaret

    A human life starts at conception.

  • Nikki

    I cant imagine ever going through something like this. What a horrible story this is. Sadly, this isnt the only one or the last one like it. I really hope these killings stop. Personaly, I never wanted to be a mother. I never planned on it. Right before my 21st birthday I found out I was pregnant. I was really scared but I never thought about killing my baby. Now I am a proud mommy of a wonderful little girl who is almost three. What a gift she is. Now I cant imagine my life without her.

  • Courtney

    Actually, killing an unborn child against the mother's will is homicide in some 38 states (http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=14386). But here's where the schizophrenia sets in: every single state has an exception for abortion, thanks to Roe v. Wade. So if the mother consents to the child's death, it's not murder. How's that for logic?

  • Amanda

    That's terrible. It's unbelievable. What is this world really coming to? :/

  • http://www.personhoodusa.com Jason

    It seems encouraging that they would recognized that killing this child is murder, or the man the punched a pregnant woman in the stomach was charged with murder, or that they charge a man with 2 murders when he kills a pregnant woman.

    But it's actually discouraging because when the baby is not wanted by the mother, they are fine with visciously killing that kid even though they know he/she is a human being who is being murdered. I think they are even more hardened by these new laws.

  • chaosvoider

    I can't believe that guy would do something so horrible to a woman whom decided NOT to have an abortion… They say that when the child dies, the mothers are in the most remorse… The police are doing the right thing by doing justice… but no amount of justice could remove the damage that was done. =/

  • Nelie

    As we grow older we are supposed to get smarter…stopping something to live=killing …how you can be found guilty with homicide in case of killing one fetus and be just fine killing other fetuses…this shows that human conscience and resonning tells us fetus=baby… somebody here shows that their reasoning is messed up …in stead of using ther inteligence founding ways to motivate their wrong actions (like abortions) in their desire to get away with their selfish lifestile, they better think straight and stop MANIPULATTING things that are easy to undestand like 1+1=2. ABORTION=MURDER, even a small child can tell you that.

  • Lydia Parks

    Very sad, but indicative of what this and other countries have become~cultures of death. Free sexual expression is not so free, is it? Just another lie from the Great Deceiver, who "seeks whom he may devour." Without God, we are so pitiable…

  • hex

    And here’s a curious question for the feminists. They advocate, strongly and consistently, for women to be able to abort their babies without the consent of the father. The child is half his, after all, so why should he not have a say? But if the feminist position is that women should be allowed to abort without the father’s consent, then really, what’s so different about this case? Isn’t it the exact same thing that feminists advocate, except with the father performing the abortion? Feminists say they’re all about equality, after all, and that they don’t want women to be superior to men, just equal.

    Here's your answer: the point of being pro-choice is that the rights of a potential person do not trump the rights of an actual person, which is to say that no one has more right to my body than I do. Therefore, a man should not be able to co-opt a woman's body and force her to carry a pregnancy to term, nor force her to have an abortion, which is why feminists are as outraged about this case as anyone else. If a man were carrying a fetus, no one, no matter who, should have the right to dictate what he does with his body and his soul, as the default judgement on this should be that he, as a reasonable adult, should be capable of making moral and other judgments for himself. A small child may be able to tell you that abortion is wrong, but when we use developed morals and reasoning, we can move past simplistic viewpoints and rely on faith and logic to help us learn to respect the rights of others.

  • Daniel Miller

    This case carries huge legal weight setting precedent for the unborn babies out there. Abortionists are going to be watching the outcome of this case, and so should we.

  • colby

    Our world, law, and goverment is so backwards this days. You can't kill an endangered species, but you can kill a baby. In the eyes of God once the seed has been planted there is now a human with a soul and a purpose. Just think how many people will have killed that could have made a difference in this world. People need to get back to God principles, and stop following the deception of the devil. He comes only to kill, steal, and destroy.

  • http://www.thoughts.com/livelife_3/blog lovelife_3

    Stories like this make you wonder "What exactly put that idea there?" Why would you want to mess with nature's natural order? Why destroy beauty? What would cause this? Satin and people decived by him. The only way to make things right again it to…make them right. Obvious isn't good enough sometimes I guess.

  • Alex

    So it's homicide if the father kills the baby without the mother's permission but not if the mother does it without the father's permission? Good for this man for standing up for himself! He did the smart thing by taking a stand and not submitting to being a human ATM for the rest of his life. I take of my hat to him!

  • gwendalyn

    Hex- thanks for adding a civil reply. However, how does one define a "potential person"? Where in development does one become an actual person? Location within or outside a woman's uterus doesn't seem to fit for a description, and age can't be it because babies can be born prematurely and not be less human? Viability may approach an answer to a different question (whether or not it's a woman's problem to carry the human) but still has little to do with actual personhood, in my mind. So what? The woman's convenience or comfort? I don't understand the logic…but I'd like a logical answerthat actually explains the difference?